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Kerry E Howell

 

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Professor Kerry E Howell

  • Job title: Professor of Governance & Leadership, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
  • Address: Room 214, Cookworthy, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Postal address: Room 214, Cookworthy, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 585704
  • Email: kerry.e.howell@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Director of Research School of Managment
Director of the Research Centre for Sustainablr Governance and Leadership 

Qualifications & background

Present Positions: Professor of Governance and Leadership (2006-to date)

Director of Research Schooolof Management (2009-to date)

Research Co-ordinator University of Plymouth Business School (2006-to date)

Business School, Faculty of Social Science and Business, University of Plymouth

Previous Positions: Professor of Governance and Leadership (2005-06)

Director of the Welsh Research Unit for Governance and Leadership (2005-06)

Head of Research Management Division (2005-06)

Business Faculty, University of Glamorgan

Professor of Governance and Regulation (2004-05)

Director of Research (2004-05)
Doctoral Studies (PhD and DBA) Course Director (2003-05)
Director of the International Research Unit for Institutional Governance (2001-05)

Reader in Institutional Governance, (2001-04)

Senior Lecturer, (2000-01)

Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University

Senior Lecturer, (1997-2000)

Lecturer, (1992-97).

School of Finance and Law, Bournemouth University

Visiting Positions: Associate Lecturer, (2000-01).

School of Language, Law and International Studies, University of Surrey

Associate Lecturer, (1997-98)

Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Research Fellow, (1995-97)

Frizzell Financial Services.

Political Consultant, (1993)

GJW Political Consultants, Europe.

Qualifications and Professional Membership
PhD, PG Cert,  BSc (Econ), H.Dip

 

Professional membership
University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES)
British Academy of Management (BAM)
Political Studies Association (PSA)
Association of Business Schools (ABS) Directors of Research Network (DoRN)
Jean Monnet Foundation
Research Wales Expertise List (Welsh Assembly)
UACES Research Expertise List
Academic Board DNA Wales (Welsh Assembly Government)
 

Roles on external bodies
 

Editorial Positions:
Managing Editor

Journal of Applied Institutional Governance

Editorial Board Member

International Journal of Qualitative Methodology

International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, University of Alabama (2004-to date)

Editorial Board Member

Journal of European Integration (2006-to date).

Editorial Board Member

International Management Journals (2004-to date).

Managing Editor

International Journal of Institutional Governance (2004-to date).

Editorial Board Member,

Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services (2000-to date).

External Roles:
Chair,

Practitioner Sub-Committee, University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) (2003-0­5).

Committee Member,

University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) (2002-0­5).

Awards:

Fellowship, Salzburg Seminar Session 401, Euro: Implications for Europe Implications for the World (2002).
Jean Monnet Associate (1999)

 


Teaching interests
Research Degree Supervision, Philosophy of Research and Methodology. 

Staff serving as external examiners

External Examiner DBA Liverpool John Moore's University (2006-to date)
External panel member for validation event , DBA Liverpool John Moore’s University, February 2006.
External panel member for validation event, MSc Corporate Governance Suite Liverpool John Moore’s University March 2005.
External panel member for validation event, MSc Corporate Governance Leeds Metropolitan University, November 2004.
 


Research interests
Governance, Europeanization, Philosophy of Research, Methodology, Financial Services, Devolution, Leadership. 

UoP Research group membership

Marine Institute 
Research Centre for Sustainable Leadership, Governance and Policy (SLGP) 

Other research
 

 

 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Exploring Attributions of Consumer Attitudes and Behaviour towards Personal Finance (Awarded, April 2004)

Conceptualising Marketing in the New Marketing Paradigm (Awarded, September 2004)

Assessing the Thurrock Local Business Initiative: Willingness to Act as Substantive Theory (Awarded, November 2004)

Ethical Implications of Corporate Governance: Deontological and Teleological Perspectives. (Awarded, December 2005)

Sino-Singapore Mergers and Cultural Change. (Awarded, December 2005)

Are responses to market orientated surveys impacted by organizational culture? (Awarded, November 2006)

Investigating the Business and Economic Objectives of UK Based Companies (Awarded, January 2007)

Pharmopolitics in Argentina: Assessing Lobbying and Interest Group Theory (Awarded, January 2007)

 

 

Grants & contracts
 

Association of British Insurers, 1992-95, £20,000.

The Worshipful Company of Insurers, 1993, £2,000.

Frizzell Financial Services, 1994, £8,000.

Frizzell Financial Services, 1995-97, £12,000.

Jean Monnet Foundation, 1999, €12,000.

European Capital Market Institute (ECMI), 1999, £6,000.

Clifford Thames, 2002, £1,000
UACES, 2002-03 £9,000
HEFCE, 2000-04, £19,000

Objective One Funding Waterton project and National Assembly for Wales, 2006, £25,000-00
Teaching and Learning Quality Initiative, 2007, £4,7000

 

 


Publications


Monographs and Books:

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology (forthcoming 2012) Sage Publishers.

Europeanization, European Integration and Financial Services: Developing Theoretical Frameworks and Synthesising Methodological Approaches, 2004. Palgrave MacMillan Press, Basingstoke, UK.
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403912556
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12062869_ITM

Entering the Eurozone: The UK and the Unknown, 2002. Earlybrave Publishers, UK.

Discovering the Limits of European Integration: Applying Grounded Theory, 2000. Nova Science Books and Journals, New York, USA.

Selected Journal Articles: 

Bank Governance in Developing Countries: An Assessment of Egypt  (Forthcoming 2012) Journal of Interdiciplinary Economics.

Enabling Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria (Forthcoming 2012) Journal of Interdiciplinary Economics.

Europeanization, Globalization
and Domestication: Financial Services Regulation in the UK. International Journal of Law and Management. Vol 51, Issue 5, 2009 pp 310-26. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. London.

Devolution and Institutional Culture: Path-Dependency and the Welsh Assembly. Policy Studies. Vol 30, Issue 2, 2009 pp 221-235. Taylor & Francis Publishers, UK. DOI: 10.1080/01442870902723774

Communicating in the New Interactive Marketspace. European Journal of Marketing (with Lancaster, G. and Ozuem, W). Vol 42, Issue 9/10, 2008 pp 1059-1083.  Emerald Group Publishing Ltd; London. DOI: 10.1108/03090561011032685.

A Review of Competing Models of Corporate Governance: The Shareholder v. the Stakeholder Model. Journal of Corporate Governance and Control. Vol 5, Issue 1, Fall 2007  pp 9-25 (with Nwanji, T). Virtus Interpress.

A Literature Survey of the Stakeholdership Model in Modern Global Business Environments. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics  Vol 18,  (4), 2007 pp 347-361 (with Nwanji, T). ABA Academic Publishing Oxon.

Cultural Perspectives in the National Assembly for Wales: Identifying Path-Dependency, Critical Moments and Critical Junctures. Contemporary Wales: An Annual Review of Economic, Political and Social Research. Vol 19, Issue 1, 2007 pp 38-56. University of Wales Press; Cardiff.

Europeanization, Policy Transfer, Convergence and Lesson Drawing: Case Studies of the UK and German Financial Services Sectors. Journal of Banking Regulation. Vol 6, No 4 August, 2005 pp 379-392. Palgrave MacMillan; Basingstoke.

Up-loading, Downloading and European Integration: Assessing the Europeanization of UK Financial Services Regulation. Journal of International Banking Regulation. Vol 6, No 1 October 2004, pp 53-68. Henry Stewart Publications; London


Theoretical Perspectives on European Policy-Making: An Empirical Study of Financial Services. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. Vol 15, pp 153-174, 2004. ABA Academic Publishing Oxon.

Up-loading, Downloading or European Integration? The Europeanization of Financial Services Regulation. Politics. Vol 24 (1) pp 20-25, 2004. Political Studies Association, Blackwell; London.  

Conceptualisations of Europeanization: Developing Methodological Approaches. Queens University On-Line Journal, Paper 3, pp 1-15, 2004. Institute of European Studies ISSN 1477-1861. European Research Paper Archive.
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Research/PaperSeries/EuropeanisationPapers/PublishedPapers/

Integrating European Financial Services: Developing Substantive Theory. Current Politics and Economics of Europe. Vol 12, No 4 pp 373-392, Winter 2003. Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA.


Developing Self and Other Recognition: Political Identity in the National Assembly for Wales. Public Policy and Administration. Vol 18, No 2, pp 89-105. Summer 2003. Sage publications. UK.

Developing Conceptualizations of Europeanization: A Study of Financial Services. The Cambridge Business Review. Vol 1, No 1, pp 204-208. Summer 2003. American Academy of Business, Cambridge, USA.


Up-Loading, Downloading and European Integration: the Europeanization of UK Financial Services Regulation Queens University On-Line Journal, Paper 11, pp 1-33, 2002. Institute of European Studies ISSN 1477-1861. European Research Paper Archive.
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Research/PaperSeries/Europeanisation
Papers/PublishedPapers/


Reviewing European Life Insurance Regulation: A Marketing Perspective. Journal of Financial Services Marketing. Vol, 5 No 3, pp 263-274, Spring 2001. Henry Stewart Publications; London.

Virtue, Virtú, the Categorical Imperative and the Civil Constitution: Defining Corporate Governance. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics Vol, 11 No 1, pp 95-104, Spring 2000. ABA Academic Publishing Oxon (with Letza, S).

Discussing Life Insurance and the European Union. The Journal of European Financial Services Vol, 5 No 2, pp 110-126, 2000.

European Union Governance: Sub-National Interests, Supranationality and the Life Insurance Industry. Current Politics and Economics of Europe Vol, 9 No 1, pp 95-115, 1999. Nova Science Publishers, New York.

National Interests in the European Union: The Case of the Life Insurance Industry. The Journal of European Financial Services. Vol, 3 No 3, pp 94-108, 1999.

 

 

Reports & invited lectures



Consultancy and Professional Publications:


The Implications of the Euro and Eurozone on SMEs in the East of England June 2002. Anglia Industry & Business.


Member State Capital Markets and European Regulation Formulation 2000. European Capital Market Institution (ECMI) Madrid, Spain.


Forecasts to the Year 2010 for the British Economy (Insurance, Banking and Finance) 1998-2000. Cambridge Econometrics, UK.


Harmonisation Processes, the European Life Insurance Industry & Decision-Making in the European Union: Some Theoretical Implications 1997. Frizzell Insurance.


The Viability of Cross-border Trade in the Spanish Insurance Market: Life and Motor Insurance, 1996. Frizzell Insurance.


Financial Services Regulation in the European Community: The Present Position, 1993. Worshipful Company of Insurers.


Selected Conference and Seminar Papers:

British Academy of Management. University of Leeds (Harrogate) 2008. Positivism, Phenomenology and Paradigms of Inquiry: Investigating the Foundations of Methodological Approaches

British Academy of Management. University of Warwick, September 2007.
Telling the Truth and Ethical Perspectives in Corporate Decision-Making


Public Administration Committee Conference. University of Ulster, September, 2007.  Worldviews, Moral Templates, Scripts, Symbols and Norms: Welsh Culture and the Role of the Welsh Assembly


Governance and Leadership Conference, University of Plymouth, May 2007.
Leadership and Culture in Wales: Assessing the Role of the Welsh Assembly


Second European Forum of Accountant and Auditors and University of Audentes. Riga, Latvia. May 2007.
Europeanization, Policy Transfer and Lesson Drawing: A Study of UK and German Financial Services Regulation
http://www.audentes.eu/?id=13499

University of East Anglia Business School Seminar Series, April 2007.
Assessing the Europeanization of Financial Services Regulation: The Case of the Competent Authority


British Accounting Association Annual Conference. University of London, Royal Holloway College, April 2007.
Ethical Implications of Corportae Governance: Deotological and Telological Perspectives

Public Administration Committee Conference. The Future of Public Services: Managing Reationships in the Services of the Public. Durham University, September 2006.
Assessing Institutional Culture in the National Assembly for Wales: A Historical Institutionalist Approach


University Of Glamorgan Business School Seminar Series, May 2006.
Europeanization and Financial Services: Identifying Meso and Substantive Theory

Frontiers of Sociology. 37th World Conference Stockholm, July 2005.
European Financial Services: Developing Substantive Theory

University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 33rd Annual Conference and 8th Research Conference The EU: The First Ten Years the Next Ten Years, Birmingham University, September 2004.

Europeanization: A Conceptual Framework?


Britain in Europe and Europe in Britain. ESRC Conference, Sheffield University, July 2004.

Europeanization of British Financial Services.


The Eighth European Business Ethics Association Annual Conference. University of Edinburgh, April 2004.

Ethical Issues and Corporate Governance: Deontological and Teleological Perspectives. (with Nwanji, T. I.).


Communication in the Age of Suspicion Conference. Bournemouth University February 2004.

Recognition, Identity and Trust.


University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 33rd Annual Conference and 8th Research Conference The EU: The First Ten Years the Next Ten Years, September 2003.

Up-loading Downloading and European Integration: A Study of UK Financial Services Regulation.


Public Administration Committee 33rd Annual Conference of the UK Governance, University of York September 2003.

Hegelian Self and Other Recognition: Political Identity in the National Assembly for Wales.


Global Business and Finance Research Conference London, the American Academy of Business, Hilton Hotel July 2003. Europeanization and UK Financial Services.


Department of Politics Symposium, University of York June 2003.

Conceptualizing Europeanization.


Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Workshop, Europeanization of British Politics and Policy-Making, Sheffield University May 2003.

The Europeanization of British Financial Services.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/departments/centres/ebpp/publications


School of Finance and Law Master Class Seminar Series, University of Bournemouth January 2003.

Developing Conceptualizations of Europeanization and European Integration: A Study of Financial Services.


Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Workshop, Europeanization of British Politics and Policy-Making, Sheffield University November 2002.

Developing a Conceptualization of Europeanization: Mixing Methodologies. http://www.shef.ac.uk/departments/centres/ebpp/publications


The 32nd Annual Conference of the Public Administration Committee, Understanding the Europeanization of Public Policy, University of York September 2002.

Europeanization of UK Local Government (with Preston, J.)


University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Workshop Sheffield University March 2002.

Political Identity and Culture in the National Assembly for Wales


University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 31st Annual Conference and 6th Research Conference The EU: The First Ten Years the Next Ten Years, Bristol University September 2001.

Europeanization and the National Assembly for Wales.


Hawaii University Conference on Business, University of Hawaii Business School June 2001.

Institutional Governance and Capital Markets: A Preliminary Study.


University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) Workshop, Sheffield University April 2001.

Devolution and European Integration.


British Accounting Association Conference, Nottingham University March 2001.

Developing Institutional Governance for European Capital Markets: A Preliminary Study and Provisional Results.


European International Business Academy, Maastricht University December 2000.

National Interests, Spillover and Supranationality in the European Union: A Study of Financial Services.


The Third Polish-British Insurance School Conference, The Polish University of Insurance and Banking April 1999.

Using Interest Groups in the European Union: The Case of the Life Insurance Industry.


British Accountancy Association Conference, UMIST April 1998. European Union Governance: Empirical Implications and Theoretical Propositions.


 

 

Conferences organised
 

Panel discussant for Press Internationale Des Assurances (PIA) Seminar regarding the ‘Implications for Enlargement of the European Union’ with Lord Tim Clement Jones, Chris Huhne MEP and Marie-Louise Rossi (IUA), June 2004.

Organization of the launch of UACES Directory of Expertise at the European Commission Offices in London, the Irish Embassy the Federal Trust and UACES Conference, June 2004.

Lead Discussant regarding the UK in a Roundtable Discussion on the ‘Euro and Opt-Out States’ led by Sir Michael Pallister (Permanent Representative for the UK 1973-75) and Paul Volker (Head of US Federal Reserve), August 2002.

The Impacts of the Eurozone on SMEs in the East of England, February 2002.

UACES 34th Annual Conference, September 2004
Launch of Welsh Research Unit for Governance and Leadership at the Welsh Millennium Centre (opening address from Andrew Davies, Welsh Assembly Governmnent Minister), September 2006.

 


Other academic activities


Book Reviews:

Sapir, et al. An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report. Oxford Univertity Press 2004. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol 6 Issue 1 2005 pp 155-57, Routledge.

Haverland, A. (2006) Methodology Chapter in Europeanization a New Research Agenda (Eds) Graziano, P. and Vink, M. Palgrave MacMillan.


Media Interviews:

BBC Radio Interview January (1999) Implications of the Euro.

BBC Radio Interview November (1996) Convergence Criteria and Monetary Union.

BBC Radio Interview April (1995) The Future of the European Union.

Working Papers
Critical Moment or Critical Juncture? Cultural Development in the National Assembly for Wales. Ashcroft International Business School Working Paper Series, 2003. Earlybrave Publications UK.

The Europeanization of British Financial Services.

Europeanization of British Politics and Public-Policy Working Paper Series 2003. ESRC, UACES and Sheffield University.

Europeanization or European Integration? A Study of Financial Services. Ashcroft International Business School Working Paper Series, 2003. Earlybrave Publications UK.

Conceptualizing Europeanization and European Integration: Mixing Methodologies. Europeanization of British Politics and Public-Policy Working Paper Series, 2002. ESRC, UACES and Sheffield University.

Integrating European Financial Services: A Grounded Theory Approach. Ashcroft International Business School Working Paper Series, 2002. Earlybrave Publications UK.

Developing Institutional Governance for European Capital Markets: A Preliminary Study and Provisional Results.

Ashcroft International Business School Working Paper Series, 2001. Earlybrave Publications UK.

Regulation Formulation in the European Union: A Case of the Life Insurance Industry. School of Finance and Law Working Paper Series, Paper No 10, 1998. University of Bournemouth.

A Single European Market in Life Insurance: A Survey of the Literature. School of Finance and Law Working Paper Series, Paper No 7, 1997. University of Bournemouth.

An Application of Grounded Theory: A Study of European Integration. School of Finance and Law Working Paper Series, Paper No 1, 1996. University of Bournemouth.
Integration Processes and the European Union: Some Theoretical Implications. School of Finance and Law Working Paper Series, Paper No 4, 1997. University of Bournemouth.